“Called by Distances travels through New Orleans and around the world in poems that gain their lyric impulse through narrative exactitude... This book is one of a kind.” -Jericho Brown
Please join us Wednesday, January 28th at 2pm CT (3pm ET) for a Facebook Live discussion and Q&A featuring Biljana D. Obradović and her new LSU Press collection, Called by Distances.
In Called by Distances, Biljana D. Obradović looks back at a life that includes surviving the demise of her native country of Yugoslavia, the loss of her parents in the same year, and displacement from Hurricane Katrina. Her poetry encompasses loves and deaths, international travels and adjustments to American culture, often accompanied by a feeling of not belonging anywhere. What emerges from these richly evocative poems is a portrait of an artist who resists the call to assimilate, and instead carves her own unique path, continuing to dream.